treefity: "If you go over the history of JOPA he has been on a crusade for what is right in college football. As a Syracuse Orange fan and a somebody who would like to kick Joe's butt every time we play them it would be easy for me to be screaming for Joe's head on a platter. You know what this was a criminal case against a man who is a pedephile and got caught. Throwing Joe under the bus for this is BS. Let the case play out in the courts and justice will run its course.Maybe Sandusky will do the honorable thing and take of matters himself and maybe he is a coward and won't but I still have faith in JoPa and will give him the benefit of the doubt."

Snyder80: "This entire situation has shifted focus from the man who is actually responsible. I cannot believe most of what I'm reading in any of these posts in the different articles throughout this website. How can anyone blame Paterno and demonize him in a post without any mention of Jerry Sandusky and say they are not on a witch hunt? And no one will ever convince me that JoePa had knowledge that this kind of thing was going on for years and simply chose to do nothing about it out of loyalty to Sandusky. That's just ridiculous and irresponsible to assume something like that about a man whose lifes work is in that university and the young men he's worked with all these years."

exdetroit:
"You're not reading about Sandusky because there's nothing really to say about him. I respect Paterno but what a huge ethical blunder. It's not a witch hunt. Read the grand jury report. Paterno was the first authority figure to be told by his grad assistant that Sandusky had sodomized a 10 year old in the PSU locker room the night before. A full day later, he relayed the information to the AD, and then met later with Shultz. Sandusky was a regular visitor for the next 9 years. Either Joe did not bother to inquire - inexcusable - or he was told it wasn't corroborated - which he more than anyone knew was not true. He may not be as much at fault as the AD and Schultz, or even McQueary, but so what. His failure to man up when a child was raped by his friend in his locker room is a disgrace and a tragedy to him and more importantly to the many people whose lives have been ravaged by this monster -- and it looks like the number is growing."

tmc:
"For those defending Paterno, read the report, then read his vague statement (artfully crafted) that does not deny he knew that the act reported to him was sexual in nature (he said he was not given the "very specific acts"....nice).
There is nothing more to know about Sandusky other than the outcome of the trial. The fact that Paterno and Spanier knew about this and, at the very least, continued to allow Sandusky access to the campus and facilities, and they did know, still needs to be answered. Paterno must be fired. Spanier must be fired. I am a lifelong Paterno fan, but this is unacceptable and embarrassing."

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